It’s been a while since I was on the system but I wanted to upgrade a 32 bit Intel box from 13.1 to 13.2. I went through the steps outlined in http://www.unixmen.com/upgrade-opensuse-13-2-opensuse-13-1/. When I rebooted, it starts to load everything… then pauses for a while… then gives the warning:
/dev/disk/by-d/ata-MAXTOR_STM3200820A_9QE03CCY-part2 does not exist
Then it enters the emergency mode… which I’m guessing is really not a good thing. I’m a noob with Linux so I’m really lost as to where to go now. Any direction is greatly appreciated
Actually, the MAXTOR is an IDE hard drive with nothing else on it but this OS.
So, am I totally screwed or is there some way to recover? I was able to use the rescue disk to see files but apparently don’t know what to mount to see the files in my account.
When I run the update it doesn’t show me any partitions. If I click the Show All Partitions I see two. They are:
openSUSE 13.2 /dev/sda2 i386 Linux native (ext4)
unknown Linux /dev/sda3/ unknown Linux native (ext4)
I select the sda2 one and get:
the partition /dev/disk/by-id/ata-MAXTOR_XXXXXXXXXXX-part3 could not be mounted.
mount special device /dev/disk/by-id/ata-MAXTOR_XXXXXXXXXXX-part3 does not exist.
Can anyone shed any light on what that means?
Sound like large scale corruption
Maybe try smartctl from the rescue disk and test the HD.
I suspect a HD problem but it file system so you could try fsck against the partition. But I find it hard to believe that all partitions are corrupt. This points to a HD problem
I’ve tried smartctl, fsck, GParted, testdisk, and everything checks out ok. IA used SystemRescueCD to boot and check what’s there as well… think I’m starting over with a reinstall. 